The Spanish Sport Arbitrary Court (TAS in Spanish) published their ruling on the former now 40 year old athlete at the petition of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) and it means she loses her gold medal won in the 2009 World Athletics Championships held in Berlin in the 3,000m hurdles.

The Spanish players had been training in Brussels and when the Belgian Crisis Centre issued an alert ‘real risk of an attack’ and both Spanish and Belgian Football Federations and advice from the Police.